Earth Day Wallpaper #5

written on April 23rd, 2010 with no comments

On to our Fifth and final free wallpaper give-away to celebrate Earth Day!. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

Our fifth and final free wallpaper for iPhone, iPod and iPad is U.S.A. Here’s a scary fact, although the USA accounts for approximately 4% of the total World population, in 1990 is was responsible for over 36% of the greenhouse emissions – the U.S.A. is the World’s biggest polluter. Maybe not a great surprise to many, but something that we all need to take action about and do our best to reduce. Although countries such as China and Mexico have in recent years reduced the number of manufacturing facilities, it’s still a huge issue. The U.S.A. is also still not part of the Kyoto Protocol which was setup and agreed to by many large nations as a policy for reducing waste and emissions because President Bush stated it would harm the US economy – shame really as it’s already not doing great – at least we could of been working towards reducing our harm to the Earth in the same amount of time. Here’s looking towards a more Earth friendly US in the coming years!

The US contains 4% of the world’s population but produces about 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. By comparison, Britain emits 3% – about the same as India which has 15 times as many people.

- BBC: The US and climate change (2002)2